{"id":850,"date":"2017-11-19T12:40:26","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T17:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/?p=850"},"modified":"2017-11-19T12:41:52","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T17:41:52","slug":"choosing-the-right-mentor-for-career-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2017\/11\/19\/choosing-the-right-mentor-for-career-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing the Right Mentor for Career Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

An excellent article <\/a>has just been published on the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) blog, by Pinar Gurel<\/a> and Adriana Bankston<\/a>, summarizing recent efforts by the Future of Research<\/a> and collaborating organizations on mentoring. In the article, they provide great advice for graduate students and postdocs seeking to expand and improve their mentoring networks or looking to begin in a new lab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An excellent article has just been published on the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) blog, by Pinar Gurel and Adriana Bankston, summarizing recent efforts by the Future of Research and collaborating organizations on mentoring. In the article, they provide great advice for graduate students and postdocs seeking to expand and improve their mentoring networks … Continue reading Choosing the Right Mentor for Career Success<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[6,63,60,102],"coauthors":[43],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7z5Ki-dI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":853,"url":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2018\/01\/04\/scismic-lab-seeker\/","url_meta":{"origin":850,"position":0},"title":"Scismic Lab Seeker","date":"January 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"A great new resource that has been in development for some time and recently released its Beta version, Scismic, aims to \u201cempower scientists to develop and take charge of their careers.\u201d With this aim, Scismic founders Danika Khong, Elizabeth Wu, and Claudia Dall\u2019Osso have developed and released Scismic Forum and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":892,"url":"https:\/\/labmosphere.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/14\/satellite-meetings-tips-for-engaging-stakeholders-remotely\/","url_meta":{"origin":850,"position":1},"title":"Satellite Meetings: Tips for Engaging Stakeholders Remotely","date":"February 14, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year in June, I worked with Future of Research to host our MentoringFutureSci meeting, where we convened stakeholders, from graduate students to department leadership, and tasked them with developing a set of guidelines to improve research training environments. 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